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The production of calcitonin by malignant tissue is now a well recognised occurrence in medullary carcinoma of the thyroid (9, 8, 4, 2), carcinoid (10) and some cases of phaeochromocytoma (11).
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Hillyard, C.J., Coombes, R.C., Greenberg, P.B., MacIntyre, I. (1976). Immunoreactive Calcitonin in Non-thyroid Tumours. In: Nielsen, S.P., Hjørting-Hansen, E. (eds) Calcified Tissues 1975. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-29272-3_46
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